388 THE NATIONAL NURSERYMAN 
State Laws 
.1 Brief Synopsis of the Laws and Regulations, Relative to the Inspection, Certification and Transportation of 
Nursery Stock. Prepared, by George G. Atwood, Chief of Bureau of Plant Industry and Published by 
Kind Permission of Charles P. Wilson, Commissioner, Department of Agriculture, State of New York. 
ALABAMA.—A signed copy of inspection certificate must be 
filed with the secretary of the Alabama State Board of Horticul¬ 
ture, and an Alabama license obtained, also Alabama tags. Nur¬ 
sery and dealers' license fee, $10.00. Agents must obtain 
license through their principal. License fee for agents, $1.00. 
Dealers must designate nurseries from whom stock handled is 
purchased. A tag must be attached at every separate order or lot 
of nursery stock delivered in the state. Tags are furnished at 
cost: first one hundred, 65 cents postpaid; five hundred, $1.60; 
one thousand, $2.20, sent collect by express. 
All scions and bud sticks must be properly fumigated. The fol¬ 
lowing insects and fungous diseases are quarantined against: San 
Jose scale, new peach scale, woolly aphis, crown gall, black knot, 
peach yellows, peach and plum rosette, citrus canker, white fly, 
gypsy moth and browntail moth. Trees liable to scale infectoin 
must be properly fumigated with hydrocyanic acid gas. All 
kinds of citrus trees are quarantined execpt Satsuma orange and 
Kumquat. The two latter may be shipped from localities free 
from citrus canker upon obtainiing special citrus permit, and 
upon compliance with the special rules covering shipments of 
such trees and other hosts of white fly, or citrus canker, which 
is, that such trees be completely defoliated and dipped (except 
roots) in 6-4-50 Bordeaux mixture. 
Special citrus permit tags are supplied at $1.00 a hundred; 50 
cents a hundred for additional lots. These must be used in ad¬ 
dition to regular tags on all shipments containing citrus trees. 
Prof. Ernest Walker, State Horticulturist, Auburn, Ala. 
ARIZONA.—Nursery stock shipped into the state must be 
prominently labeled with the name and the address of both the 
shipper and the consignee, and must be accompanied by a valid 
certificate of inspection or a copy of such certificate. Shipments 
into the state, consisting of or containing plants not grown in 
the locality from which shipment was made, must, in addition, 
specify where such plants were grown. 
State quarantine orders now in effect and of interest to nur¬ 
serymen prohibit; (No. 1) the importation of stock from sections 
infested by the alfalfa weevil; (No. 4) rooted grape vines from 
north of the north line of San Bernardino, Kern, and San Luis 
Obispo counties, California; (No. 8) the importation of citrus 
nursery stock from all other states and territories and of cape 
jessamine, privets, and rubber plants from North Carolina, South 
Carolina, Georgia, all states bordering on the Gulf of Mexico, 
and Yuba County California; (No. 11) the importation of olive 
trees. Other quarantines relate to the (Mexican orange maggot 
(quarantine made practically inoperative owing to establishment 
of Federal quarantine), cotton boll weevil, date palm scales, and 
citrus canker. None of these latter concern shipments of nur¬ 
sery stock into Arizona from outside sources. 
All shipments of living plants into the state of Arizona are 
inspected by Arizona state inspectors and not delivered until a 
certificate of release is issued in each case to the common car¬ 
rier and to the consignee. If trees or plants are infested or in¬ 
fected with insect pests or plant diseases of general occurence in 
the section of the state where the shipment is received, treat¬ 
ment to eradicate, or the separation of the infested or diseased 
plants or trees, is in most cases permissible; otherwise all plants 
or trees of the kind found to be infested or diseased are held in 
quarantine and are shipped from the state or destroyed at the 
owner’s option. Copies of quarantine orders furnished upon ap¬ 
plication. A. W. Morrill, State Entomologist, Phoenix, Arizona. 
ARKANSAS.—Shipments of nursery stock into the state must 
be accompanied by a copy of the valid certificate of inspection, 
and must bear the name and address of the consignor and con¬ 
signee with a statement of the contents of the shipment; all 
shipments not so labeled or tagged must be refused for shipment 
by the carrier. Carriers bringing into the state shipments of 
nursery stock which originated in foreign countries or foreign 
possessions of the United States must notify the State Entomolo¬ 
gist in writing and must hold such stock at any place designated 
by him until the same has been duly inspected and released. 
Nurserymen located out of the state may secure permits by 
filing with the State Entomologist a copy of their certificate. 
Geo. G. Becker. State Entomologist. Fayetteville, Ark. 
CALIFORNIA.—Shipments of nursery stock into California 
are held by transportation companies until inspected by the state 
officials. All packages must be marked with the name and ad¬ 
dress of the shipper, name of the consignor, and the name of the 
country, state, or territory where the contents were grown. 
Peach, apricot, and almond trees from districts wherre yellow 
and rosette are known to exist shall be refused entry and shall 
be destroyed or returned to the shipper. White pine trees, cur¬ 
rants, and gooseberries from points east of North Dakota, South 
Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas are refused 
entry into California for reason of white pine blister rust, and 
must be returned to shipper or destroyed. Notice of shipment 
of nursery stock to California should be sent to the following ad¬ 
dress, and also to the quarantine guardians at the point of des¬ 
tination: Frederick Maskew, Chief Deputy Quarantine Officer, 
Room 11, Ferry Building, San Francisco, California. 
COLORADO.—The State Entomologist has general supervision 
of the inspection of nurseries and orchards to prevent the intro¬ 
duction and spread of injurious insects and plant diseases. 
County horticultural inspectors in fruit-growing counties of the 
state are appointed by the county commissioners, after passing a 
satisfactory examination given by the State Entomologist, under 
whose direction they work. All nursery stock coming into the 
state must bear certificates of inspection and fumigation and on 
arrival in counties that have inspectors is turned over to them 
and released to consignee if it passes inspection. C. P. Gilette, 
State Entomologist, Fort Collins, Colo. 
CONNECTICUT.—All nursery stock shipped into this state 
shall bear on each package a certificate that the contents of said 
package have been inspected by a state or government officer 
and that said contents appear free from all dangerous insects 
and diseases. If nursery stock is brought into the state without 
such a certificate, the express, freight, or other transportation 
company or person shall, before delivering shipment to con¬ 
signee, notify the State Entomologist of the facts, giving name 
and address of consignee, origin of shipment, and approximate 
number of cars, boxes, or packages, and probable date of the de¬ 
livery to the consignee. The State Entomologist may cause the 
inspection and, if infested, the treatment of the stock. No per¬ 
son, firm, or corporation shall unpack any woody field-grown nur¬ 
sery or florists’ stock brought into this state from foreign 
countries except in the presence of an inspector, unless given 
permission to do so by said State Entomologist or one of his dep¬ 
uties. If such stock is found infested with any dangerous pests 
the State Entomologist may at his decretion order it treated. 
Any person violating any of the provisions of this act shall be 
fined not more than $50. Dr. W. E. Britton, State Entomologist, 
New Haven, Conn. 
DELAWARE.—Shipments of nursery stock into the state must 
bear a certificate of inspection and also a certificate stating that 
the stock has been properly fumigated. All nursery stock not 
accompanied by proper certificates may be held by the transpor¬ 
tation companies until it can be inspected. Wesley Webb, Sec¬ 
retary, State Board of Agriculture, Dover, Del. 
FLORIDA.—To each package of nursery stock shipped into 
the state must be attached a Florida permit certificate tag and a 
certificate issued by the state inspection official of the state 
where grown. These tags may be secured at cost from the un¬ 
dersigned by the deposit of a satisfactory certificate of inspec¬ 
tion signed in ink by the proper inspection official of the state of 
issue. A duplicate invoice covering each shipment made into this 
state must be filed in the office of the Nursery Inspector at 
Gainesville, Fla., promptly after the shipment has gone forward. 
The shipment of citrus into Florida is prohibited. All host 
plants of San Jose Scale must be fumigated before shipment. 
The entrance of all infested or diseased stock is prohibited. All 
plants callable of defoliation must be defoliated. Shipments must 
be completely and securely covered or wrapped. Nursery In¬ 
spection Circular No. 5 explains all of the details and will be sent 
free to those applying to F. M. O'Byrne, Nursery Inspector, State 
Plant Board, Gainesville, Fla. 
GEORGIA.—Nurseries are inspected annually. A signed dup¬ 
licate of inspection certificate, together with a statement by the 
nurserymen that all stock intended for Georgia will be fumigated 
in accordance with directions furnished them, must be filed in 
the office of the State Entomologist. Official tags of the Georgia 
State Board of Entomollosy will be furnished through the State 
Entomologist at the following prices: one hundred tags, 60 cents, 
nostpaid; 200 tags, 85 cents, postpaid; 300 tags, $1.10 postpaid; 
500 tags, $1.35, sent by express, collect; 1,000 tags, $2, sent by 
express, collect. Each shipment of nursery stock into the state 
